Books by Ben Stein and Complete Book Reviews

Ben Stein, Author New Beginnings Press $17.95 (135p) ISBN 978-1-56170-975-5

While the cowboy life is basking in the Brokeback spotlight, Stein (How to Ruin Your Life) believes the mindset of these romantic figures-the cowboys’ “”bunkhouse logic””-is the ultimate guide to fulfillment in life. But don’t let the stature of…

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Ben Stein, Author Hay House $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56170-974-8

Keeping a Chin Up Offering a tongue-in-cheek approach to living well, quiz show host and former White House speechwriter Ben Stein has written How to Ruin Your Life. Asserting that “”failure is often a virtual road map to success in reverse,””…

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Ben Stein. Wiley, $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-118-03817-8

In this irreverent forum, Stein, an award-winning financial journalist who is best known to the public as an actor, answers life’s important questions. Though he certainly entertains fans, the book is unlikely to earn him any new ones. However, even

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Ben Stein, Author, Benjamin Stein, Author Hay House $12.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-4019-0240-7

Ben Stein shows readers, in a droll, matter-of-fact manner, how to get where you want to go “”by simply not going where you do not want to go”” in How to Ruin Your Love Life, a reverse road map containing relationship rules like “”Act Moody and…

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Ben Stein, Author, Benjamin Stein, Author, Phil DeMuth, Author . Wiley $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-471-43016-2

Arriving a few years too late to slap some reality into the legions of day traders suckered by the stock market gold rush, TV game show host Stein’s latest is still a smart, commonsense guide to investing. Stein and DeMuth’s primary dispute…

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Benjamin Stein, Author, Ben Stein, Author Hay House $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4019-0241-4

Stein delivers a practical message in his own brand of wry, dry humor. Maybe money can’t buy happiness, he writes,””but it sure gives a good impression of a long-term lease.”” And so, by pointing out the myriad ways too many people wreck their…

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Benjamin Stein, Author, Ben Stein, Author Bantam Books $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-34520-9

Former White House speechwriter Stein’s (Her Only Sin, etc.) diary of six months, from November 1985 to May 1986, is a failed attempt to humorously depict what life is like for a nice guy living in crazy Hollywood. Complaining about his Porsche and…

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Benjamin Stein, Author, Ben Stein, Author Free Press $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-684-83896-0

Stein, an actor and former speechwriter who worked for President Nixon in 1987, together with his wife, Alex, adopted baby Tommy that year. The author’s relationship with his new son got off to a rocky start: he was so jealous of the attention Tommy

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Benjamin Stein, Author, Ben Stein, Author, Phil DeMuth, Author Hay House $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4019-0333-6

America may be waging war against””certain deranged souls in the Moslem world,”” but the real enemy–lurking alarmingly within–is a Fifth Column of angry,””Anti-American”” leftists fomented by Al Gore and John Kerry, contend conservative humorist…

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